“A person of interest might not actually be a witness, but someone who simply has a connection to or someone with knowledge of a suspect or information regarding a crime”
Thats called a material witness. And when you find them, courts don’t require them to be mirandized. You don’t mirandize them unless they say something that makes you think they are actually involved. IE,,knocking on the door of the girlfriends house to see if she knows where the suspect is. When the non-suspect interviewee (material witness) says “we burned the cars because,,,”, Then they become a suspect.
And there is no difference.
As you said,,
“they are called a person of interest, until the person is actually charged with a specific crime. Many times, they wait until the person being detained, has their home/vehicles searched for additional evidence prior to calling the person of interest, a suspect.”
If you are detained, and a specific incident is being investigated, and they are merely deciding what charges make sense,,,, and executing search warrants. You are a “suspect”. They can call you “Mr green Jeans”,,, but every supreme court case calls you a suspect.
Id like you to refer me to a case that seperates “suspect” from “person of interest”. There isn’t one. It’s a meaningless word, used by Chiefs, PIO’s, and Nancy Grace.
BTW, don’t let the term, “Person of interest” drive ya crazy. It’s been used for many years and for good reason...Such as when things go bad on the investigation side etc.